Komets

You can read about it here.

This will be interesting. I have always had a lot of respect for Shanahan and the way he played the game. He was straight up, and it's not like he was an angel all the time. This is a gutsy move by the NHL. I think the biggest thing is that the owners were getting tired of paying the worker's comp insurance for a

Kent and I are going to talk Komets training camp preview from 5-6 p.m.

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As many of you know, training camp practices at Memorial Coliseum are closed to the public next week. BUT, next Friday the 14th, the 9 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. practices will be held at Lutheran Health Sports (Canlan) before the team takes off for the exhibition game in Dayton. Those two practices are open to the public.

Carroll vs. Homestead, 6:30 p.m.; Leo vs. Northrop, 7:30 p.m.; Snider vs. Bishop Dwenger, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday: Northrop vs. Bishop Dwenger, 4 p.m.; Snider vs. Carroll, 6 p.m.; Homestead vs. Leo, 8 p.m.

There's an Easter Egg in one of these photos for those with sharp eyes.

Gotta love that mask

 The Central Hockey League (CHL) announced today the 11 gentlemen that will serve as the league's full-time on-ice officials for the 2011-12 season.   

The full-time referees for the upcoming season are Zac Blazic, Boone Bruggman, Brent Coulombe, Marc-Andre Lavoie and Peter Tarnaris and the full-time linesmen are Kyle DeMaggio, John Grandt, Bill McGoldrick, Shaun Morgan, Cory Piche and James Sanders.

The 2011-12 season will mark the first as a full-time CHL officials for Blazic, Coulombe, Tarnaris, DeMaggio, Morgan and Sanders.      

From Ida Kaiser, these are from the 1973 Turner Cup party.

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This is just too cool to wait until tomorrow. From Ken Weigman